educational publishing

Friday News: More Twilight fan fiction goes mainstream; Stanford introduces open source educational platform; Royal Society archives reveal more influential females in science

Nov 9 2012

Friday News: More Twilight fan fiction goes mainstream; Stanford introduces open source educational platform; Royal Society archives reveal more influential females in science

‘Twilight’ Fanfiction Hit ‘The Office’ Gets Book Deal – Gallery has bought the Twilight fan fiction of Christina Hobbs (aka TBY789) and Lauren Billings (aka Lolashoes) called The Office. The story is Edward as the boss and Bella as his assistant. This will be published by Gallery in 2013 as “Beautiful Bastard” and “Beautiful Stranger”.(…)

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Thursday News: Dumb senate questions; Claire Felicie’s pictoral study; Amazon’s WhisperCast

Oct 18 2012

Thursday News: Dumb senate questions; Claire Felicie’s pictoral study; Amazon’s WhisperCast

Actual U.S. Senate Debate Question: “Have You Read Fifty Shades Of Grey?” – “This was a real question posed to Kirsten Gillibrand and Wendy Long, two women running for U.S. senate in New York, during their only debate.” Oh America. What is wrong with you? Buzzfeed Amazon Launches New Tool to Help Schools Manage Their(…)

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Friday News: DOJ delivers a sharp retort; Amazon sets date to announce new Kindles; and Tom Sawyer + Steampunk?

Aug 24 2012

Friday News: DOJ delivers a sharp retort; Amazon sets date to announce new Kindles; and Tom Sawyer + Steampunk?

The DOJ filed its response to the resistances filed against the request that Judge Cote approves the settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster. If you’ve read Courtney Milan’s brilliant piece that books are not special snowflakes, you’ve read the DOJ’s retort which uses the same case law (and admittedly why wouldn’t they) and(…)

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Wednesday Midday Links: Simon & Schuster Let’s Go Half of its Sales Staff

Jan 6 2010

Wednesday Midday Links: Simon & Schuster Let’s Go Half of its Sales Staff

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Nov 5 2009

Thursday Midday Links Roundup: Education is moving toward digital

How good is Harlequin doing? Pretty good. In a dismal economy that sees revenues at its parent company dropping, Harlequin is bringing in the profit. David Holland, the interim CEO at Torstar, said that the decline in newspapers and digital were offset by continued growth at Harlequin. (Actually Holland stated it the other way around(…)

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Jun 22 2009

Weekly Tech Links

Keishon of AvidBookReader explains why the iPhone is her go to ereading device even though she owns and loves her Sony Reader. Intel hopes to have wireless power charging available in the next 18 months. As someone who lugs around three items that need to be charged at all times, I can only say that(…)

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